yes. old fashion material greed....its all over the place in government.....
sadly, it is discouraging that these guys shuns away from Linux and Open Source
despite being free or cheap.....but bec. they cant make money out of it unlike the
tons of money they could make from commercial software companies who gives them
kickbacks in exchange for a government contract........can open source software beat
the smoke out of that? .....
oh well....
Denis Sarmiento
Lockheed Martin - The Aerospace Company
Running 96 days 7 hours 10 mins - SuSE Linux Enterprise S390
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:41:55
Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
>En Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:32:14AM +0800, Marvin T. Pascual escribio:
>#_
>#_ I agree. = )
>#_
>#_ Pero, how come our government are still buying these very expensive
>#_ softwares? Since we're in the PLUG, how could we motivate the government
>#_ first to use Open Source Softwares? = )
>#_
>#_ Para Sa Bayan! = )
>
>I'm afraid to say this, but i suspect one of the answers to your question
>is... kickback. The other is ignorance... well, the lack of awareness that
>there exists an alternative to proprietary software. But mostly I think
>Kickback ;->
>
>--
>Juan Miguel Cacho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Philippines
>...the poor count their blessings, the affluent count their calories.
>
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